Sex is not conducted out of good sense or reason, and it never will be. By its very nature it is irrational, and both the importance and the irrationality of sex are beyond negotiation. Societal stigma, self-stigma, and shame are often about sex because these issues are rooted in feelings that many human beings find self-revealing and frightening. The only way out of this perceived conflict is to use our rational minds to come to some acceptance of human life as it is. Our choice is simple: we can be ourselves, or we can be ourselves pretending to be something else.
